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Dalton Highway: Part 4 Atigun Pass
Advertisements Atigun Pass is the most dangerous part of what has been called the most dangerous highway. Atigun Pass (68° 7′[…]
Read moreDalton Highway: Part 2 Coldfoot Camp
Advertisements Coldfoot Camp North of the Arctic Circle sits Coldfoot Camp, a glorified truck stop half way up the Dalton,[…]
Read moreDriving The Dalton Highway: Part 1 North Bound
Advertisements As I was heading up the Dalton Highway (The haul Road) It only seemed right to start this leg[…]
Read moreOff the Beaten Path: Amboy Crater
Advertisements After my first deployment to the Persian Gulf in 1980, I wanted to get as far away from the[…]
Read moreIsolated and off-the- beaten path: The Forks, ME
Advertisements With a full-time population of about 30 people, I have been in Starbucks more crowded than The Forks, ME.[…]
Read moreHostile Border Crossings: Smugglers Paradise Paraguay / Brazil
Advertisements This is the third in a series (see posts East Berlin and Bulgaria). In 1993, my pregnant wife and[…]
Read moreIsolated and off-the- beaten path: Masirah Island, Oman
Advertisements Masirah Isand, Oman, not so much a tourist destination as a landing strip on a desert island in the[…]
Read moreIsolated and Extremely Off-the-beaten path: Diego Garcia, BIOT
Advertisements Strictly speaking it’s a top secret military base and an alleged black-ops CIA location in the middle of the[…]
Read moreIsolated and Off-the-beaten Path: Oglala National Grasslands, NE
Advertisements Leaving Rapid City (see post) for a fall fishing trip in Wyoming, I purposely drove through this isolated northwestern[…]
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